Nominators

Photographer, South Africa

Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of Western Cape, Founder of Two Crows, South Africa

Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Deputy Director, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Photographer, Curator, Co-founder of ARTOJA , Nigeria

Art historian, Critic and Curator, Cameroon

Director of Photo, Johannesburg, South Africa

Independent Curator, Nigeria

Head, African Film Library, Institut Français, Paris, France

Managing Director of the Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts in Morocco, Morocco

Chairman, Founder, Kulturforum Süd-Nord and Regard Benin, Benin

Director, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers, Algeria

Co-Founder and Chief Editor, Afrique in Visu, France

Founder and Director, African Artists’ Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria

Art Historian and Curator, Africa

Author, Critic, Journalist and Editor, Cape Town , South Africa

Professor, Art Critic and Curator, Tunisia

Photographer, South Africa

Managing Director, Photographer, Writer, Curator, Teacher and Activist, Drik, Bangladesh

Curator and publisher at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, India

Curator and Founder, Thinking Hands, France

Program Coordinator at Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, Cambodia

Art Director, Writer, Independent Curator, France

Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, Philippines

Lecturer, Art Writer and Independent Curator, Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Director, Photoink, India

Founding Director, Cara Consulting, Singapore

Director G/P gallery, Professor of Art and Design Kyoto University, Japan

Independent Art & Documentary Photography Curator, Editor, Researcher & Consultant, Japan

Photographer and Curator, Nepal

Dean, School of Visual Arts and Design, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan

Photographers and Founders, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China

Chief Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan

Photographer, Curator and Researcher, Japan

Professor, Kyungil University of Photograph & Video, South Korea

Artist, Social Activist, Founder and Artistic Director of the Israeli Photography Festival, Israel

Director, DECK by Art Photography Centre, Singapore

Director and Independent Curator, SUUM Academy & Project, South Korea

Founder, Invisible Photographer Asia, Singapore

Art Consultant and Director, C1 Art Ltd, China

Documentary Arts Asia Founder & Director, Thailand

Founder and Director, Shanghai Centre of Photography, China

Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director, KYOTOGRAPHIE, Japan

Co-Founder and Director, Angkor Photo Festival, France

Publisher & Editor, Art Asia Pacific, China

Executive Director, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, China

Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Co-Founder & Co-Director, KYOTOGRAPHIE, Japan

Editor, Sanctuary Asia, India

Photographer & Founder, Foto Féminas, Hong Kong

Curator, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan

Director, Farah Siddiqui Contemporary Art, India

Director of OCAT Xi'An and Artistic Director, Shanghai Center of Photography, China

Independent Curator, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Seoul Lunar Photo, South Korea

Collector and founder, Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong

Publisher and Director, Serindia Publications and Serindia Gallery, Thailand

Associate Professor, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan

Director, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

Independent Curator and Art Collector, China

Editor in Chief, Galli Magazine, India

Photography Publisher and Editor, Goliga, Japan

Director, Landalp, Hong Kong, China

Director and Independent Curator, SUUM Academy & Project, Singapore

Head of Art Collection, Taikang Collection and Director of Taikang Space in Beijing, China

Curator, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan

CEO, WYNG Foundation, China

Independent Curator, Art Critic and Art Consultant, Hong Kong

Vice-Director, Research Centre for Visual Culture, Fudan University, China

Curator, Beijing Art Lab & Zurich, Art Basel Hong Kong Film Sector, Switzerland

Senior advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia, Former Art Basel’s UK and MENA representative, Member of Tate Modern advisory council, United Kingdom

Artistic Director, Consultant, Educator, GETXOPHOTO & Landskrona Foto Festival, United Kingdom

Independent Curator, France

Founder and Director, Anzenberger Gallery & Anzenberger Agency, Vienna, Austria

Rector, CSVPA, Cambridge School Of Visual & Performing Arts, United Kingdom

Director MCC Gallery, Marrakesh, Morocco, Founder and Creative Director at Black Shade Projects, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Photographer, Architect, & Photographic Critic, United Kingdom

Director, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Director, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, United Kingdom

Chief Editor, FK Magazine, Latvia

Curator, Next Level Projects, United Kingdom

Curator of the photographic collection, Musée du Quai Branly, France

Managing Director & Curator at Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Germany

Head of Exhibitions at La Fábrica and PHotoEspaña festival, Madrid, Spain

Art Historian, Director of Museum Folkwang, Switzerland

Independent Photography Curator, Lecturer and Art Consultant, Switzerland

Founder and Director, Agency DB Daria Bonera, Italy

Project Head, Photographer and Curator, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Italy

Artist and writer, Paris, France

Chief Curator and Head of Ethnography Division, Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium

Director of Photography, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, United Kingdom

Member of Fotofestival Collective, Lodz, Poland, Former Artistic Director at Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Germany

Founder, 3/3 Tre terzi, Italy

Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, LensCulture, The Netherlands

Art Director, Writer, Independent Curator, Spain

Photography Specialist, Curator and Gallerist, United Kingdom

Director, Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

Head of The Perfect World Foundation, SeaLegacy's European Ambassador, Artistic director and Photography Curator, Copenhagen, Denmark

Independent Curator and Writer, Germany

Editor in Chief and Director at 1000 Words, United Kingdom

Principal Digital Communication Expert, European Central Bank, Visual Storyteller, Germany

Curator, United States

Course Leader, Documentary Photography & Photojournalism BA, London College of Communication - University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom

Director, Swiss Camera Museum, Vevey, Switzerland

Director, Italian Cultural Institute of London, United Kingdom

Editor, Source Photographic Review, United Kingdom

Chief of Photography, Centre Pompidou, France

Photographer, Editor and Art Patron, London

Director, Specialist, Head of Photographs Department, Sotheby's London, United Kingdom

Fine Art Advisory and Curator, Latin American Photography & Mixed Media, Founder CF-LART, United Kingdom

National Curator of Contemporary Art at Forestry England, Co-Founder FORMAT, International Photography Festival, United Kingdom

Head International Cultural Policy & Coordination, DutchCulture, The Netherlands

Curator, Hungarian National Museum, Hungary

Professor & Dean of the Multimedia Communication Faculty, University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland, Poland

Independent Curator, Creative Director, France

Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom

Founding director, CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography, Berlin, Germany

Art Historian, Curator, Professor at University College London, London

Fashion Stylist and Design Consultant, United Kingdom

Director, Ecole Nationale Supérieur de la Photographie, France

Photographer and Lecturer, France

Picture Editor, New Scientist, United Kingdom

Editor-in-Chief, PHOTONEWS, Germany

Director, Rencontres d’Arles, France

Chief Curator, C/O Berlin, Germany

Director of Galerie Janvrin, France

Co-founder, Lianzhou International Photography Festival and Chief Curator, Pingyao International Photography Festival, France

Art Director an Chief Representative Leica Galleries, Germany

Founder and Artistic Director of KAUNAS PHOTO Festival, Lithuania

Senior Curator, Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, United Kingdom

Director at Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany

Professor of Digital Museology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Director/Curator, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland

Director, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland

Director at Simone Klein Photography & Art Advisory, Germany

Curator, WestLicht – Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria

Photographer, France

Co-Founder of Laika Productions, The Netherlands

France

Co-Director and Curator at Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland

Co-Founder, DSLcollection, France

Photographer, United Kingdom

Independent Curator/Producer, United Kingdom

Art Advisor, United Kingdom

Chief Curator, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany

Founder, Mack Books, United Kingdom

Art Advisor, Italy

Freelance Executive Art Producer, Creative Content Director and Visuals Director, United Kingdom

Public Affairs Consultant, Creator’s Rights Alliance, Former CEO of Association of Photographers, United Kingdom

Independent curator and Director of Spain NOW!, United Kingdom

Director, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens Photo Festival, Greece

Director, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Greece

Director, diCHromA Photography, Spain

Head of Department, Photography, The Albertina, Austria

Independent Curator and Critic, The Netherlands

Artist & Publisher, Equivalence: European Photography, Germany

Freelance Consultant, France

Independent Curator, Educator and Founder of The Curator Ship, Barcelona, Spain

Director, L A Noble Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Head of UCL Art Collections, University College London., United Kingdom

Founder and Director, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, Germany

France

Curator, 3/3 Tre terzi, Italy

Chief Curator, Photography, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

Director, Education & Public Affairs, The Royal Photographic Society, United Kingdom

Senior Research Scholar, Yale Center for British Art, United Kingdom

Director, Leica Gallery, United Kingdom

Photography Consultant and Curator, France

Director of Photography, L'Obs, France

Photographer, France

Writer and Curator, London, United Kingdom

Director, PARALLEL EUROPEAN PLATFORM, Portugal

Head of Department at Kingston School of Art and Company Director at Impressions Gallery, United Kingdom

Chief Curator, Director of Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux, France

Director, The Photographers' Gallery, United Kingdom

President, Foto Colectania, Spain

Social Activist, Photographer and Humanitarian Ambassador

Photographer, Italy

Lecturer and Curator, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Art Historian, Curator, TV Presenter and Arts Writer, London, United Kingdom

Curator, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Art Director, Curator, France

Head of Photography, The Guardian, United Kingdom

Cultural Programme Curator, Historic England, London, United Kingdom

BBC Reporter, United Kingdom

Director, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Italy

Director, Photolux Festival, Italy

Professor, German Literature and Media History, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Director of the French Academy in Rome, Italy

Founder and Director of Fifty One & Fifty One Too Galleries, Belgium

Curator, House of Photography/Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

Curator of Photography and Research Leader, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Senior Curator, The Hague Museum of Photopgraphy, The Netherlands

Curator and Fine Art Photography Critic, Director of Admira Photography, Italy

Curator of Photography, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden

Professor of Contemporary Art and Photography and Director of the Fine Art and Photography Research Centre at UCA (University for the Creative Arts), United Kingdom

Founder, Walther Collection, Germany

Curator, Writer and Public Art Consultant, United Kingdom

Owner, Founder & Curator at BASMOCA, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Artistic Director of East Wing, United Arab Emirates

Chief Curator at PHOTO IS:RAEL Festival, Israel

Curator, Art Writer and Former Head of Photography Department, Istanbul Museum of Modern Arts, Turkey

Chief Curator, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey

Programme Coordinator, Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands

Director, East Wing , United Arab Emirates

Iran

Artist, Iran

Director, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Israel

Director at Lehmann Maupin , Turkey

Curator of Photographs, Orientalist Museum, Qatar

Writer, Visual Artist, Activist , Lebanon

Director, Sustainability, Process Optimization Projects, Artelio Design Inc. , Iran

Founder, Ayyam Gallery, United Arab Emirates

Curator of Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Patron of the Arts, United Kingdom

Photography Department Manager, Istanbul Modern, Turkey

Founder and Director, Elipsis Gallery, Turkey

Director, Visuals Editor, Curator, Writer, Teacher, Advisor, Biondifoto, United States

Senior Curator, Photography, Guggenheim, United States

Deputy Director, International Centre of Photography, United States

Author, Educator, Curator and Chair within Photography , United States

Associate Director of Art, Prints and Photographs and Senior Curator of Photography, The New York Public Library , United States

Founder and Editor, Conscientious, United States

Cultural Critic and Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, United States

Executive Director at FotoFest, Houston, United States

Freelance Curator and Arts Consultant, United States

Owner, D Griffin Studio, Inc., Washington DC, United States

Collectors, United States

Curator & Department Head, Photographs, Getty Museum, United States

International Head of Photographs department at Christie's, United States

Collector, Curator and Consultant, United States

Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, United States

Curator Photography & New Media, Canadian Centre for Architecture , Canada

Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, United States

Executive Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, United States, United States

Founder, CEO & Creative Director of Visura.co, United States

Creative Director, Publisher, Aperture Foundation, United States

Executive Director, Tim Hetherington Trust, United States

Festival Director, FotoSetiembre , United States

Photographer and Conservationist, Executive Director at SeaLegacy, United States

Independent Writer & Curator, United States

Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States

Independent Scholar, Curator and Writer , United States

Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

Associate Curator of Photography, SFMOMA., United States

Director, Programs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

Independent Photographer, United States

Curator Emerita, Photography, SFMOMA, San Francisco, United States

Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum, United States

Independent Producer and Curator, Los Angeles, United States

Former Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography, United States

Director of Education, The Society of the Four Arts Fitz Eugene Dixon Education Building, Palm Beach, United States

Artistic Advisory Panel & Committee Member, Perth Centre, Independent Curator and Arts Writer, Australia

Director and Higher Education Academic Director of Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive, Photography Studies College, Australia

Development Manager, Polyglot Theatre, Australia

Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Director, M.33 , Australia

Novelist, screenwriter, art critic and co-editor, Frieze Magazine, United Kingdom

Enterprise Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne , Australia

Photographer and Lecturer, Melbourne, Australia

Senior Curator, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia

Founder and Former Festival Director of BALLARAT International Foto Biennale, Australia

Curator of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Gallery Director, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia

Artistic Director, PHOTO 2020, Melbourne , Australia

Designer, Photography Curator, Photo Editor, World Bank Group, UNLESS YOU WILL, threestones , Australia

Founder and Creative Director, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia

Photographer & Artist, New Zealand

Managing Director of Camelot Mosman Park Arts Foundation, Director of Perth Center for Photography , Australia

Secretary of Culture, São Paulo State, Brazil

Founder, Mas Arte Mas Acción, Colombia

Artist, Director of Contemporary Art Workshop at Art Platform at MUCA, Roma and Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, LA ESMERALDA, Mexico City, Mexico

Director, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexico

Photography Researcher, Mexico

Creative Director, Photography Production and Art Consultant, Brazil

Freelance photographer, Mexico

Independent Curator, Argentina

Art Critic, Curator, ArtNexus , Cuba

Photographer, Writer, Founding Editor of Fototazo, Colombia

Founder and Director, Centro de la Imagen, Peru

Specialist, Latin American Photography, United States

Co-founder, Artworx.b146, Switzerland

Curator, Writer and Editor, Galerieas Municipais Lisboa bei EGEAC , Brazil

Senior Lecturer, Visual Theories, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London, United Kingdom

Independent Photographer and Curator, Peru

Research Professor, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, Mexico

Artistic Director, Founder and Director, Foto Mexico, Canopia , Mexico

Head Photography Curator, Instituto Moreira Salles , Brazil

Director, Proconecta , Peru

Director, Galeria Karla Osario , Brazil

Director Art Center Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba

Photographer and Founder, The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film, Puerto Rico

Artistic Director, FLORA ars+natura, Bogota, Colombia

Independent Scholar and Curator, Mexico

Head Curator, Chopo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

Professor of Art, Director and Curator, Lehigh University Art Galleries, United States

Photographer, Editor and Director, International Festival of Photography, Valparaiso , Chile

Founder, Curator and Documentary Filmmaker, 212BERLIN FILMS, Mexico